Another huge thank you to our friends at Downing Place URC for their generous donation of £600. Note: All the money we raise goes towards providing aid or supporting our convoys. CamCRAG has no employees, and is entirely run by volunteers.
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We are sad to announce that Elliot has stepped down as Chair of Trustees after 4 years service but congratulate him on his new roles as Chair of the Refugee Charities Network and Coordinator of the UK Aid Hub project. Elliot has been involved with CamCRAG from the start and […]
Around two dozen people aged 4 to 70 braved less than ideal weather conditions to attend CamCRAG's ceilidh held during refugee week.
Thank you to all our fantastic volunteers who act as donations hubs, to our hardworking sorting crew, and to everyone who has donated clothes, tents, sleeping bags, and more. A lorry-load of CamCRAG aid arrived in Calais on Tuesday 11th May 2021, and another lorry should be going to Lebanon […]
Excitingly, Maggie and Sara (our new convoy coordinators) have booked a convoy weekend for 3-5 September. This is still only provisional as we have no idea whether it is going to be possible yet, but the youth hostel is keeping rooms for us and the warehouses are expecting us. Booking […]
Buy ‘unsuitable donations’ on our new eBay page! We get some brilliant donations – some are a bit strange, and some are definitely more valuable as re-sale items than they would be in camps. Donations have included wedding dresses, designer handbags, glamorous high-heeled shoes, impractical leather jackets and cool street wear […]
We are very grateful to Historyworks for including CamCRAG as one of the beneficiaries of the fundraising events included in their Holocaust Memorial Day. The series of events included an online poetry reading by Michael Rosen and a talk by Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke, as well as the mayor’s official […]
While the weather on Lesvos has finally improved this week, conditions for refugees living in the new ‘temporary’ camp are still poor. December and January brought storms from the south, with high winds and very heavy rainfall, interspersed by settled but cold weather, with night-time temperatures touching freezing and a biting northerly wind sweeping across the peninsula on which the new camp is sited.
The need for donations of aid in Calais is greater than ever. So, although we are all locked down again and can’t hold public donations drop days at the moment, volunteers have agreed to act as local donation collection points. From the beginning of February, you can email our donations […]
Calais Food Collective (CFC) are in desperate need of more tinned fish to help feed the communities they support. In December, CFC reached out to CamCRAG for our help, and we launched our appeal to raise £1500 to buy a pallet of 4000 tins of sardines for CFC to distribute […]